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Japanese history

...northern Honshu and placed it under its direct control, and in 1807 the
bakufu also took direct control of both eastern and western Ezo for defensive purposes. In 1808 the English warship
Phaeton made an incursion on Nagasaki, and three years later the Russian naval lieutenant V.M. Golovnin landed on Kunashiri Island, where he was arrested by
bakufu authorities. When these...